We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
The greatest quality of a man is to treat his enemies in a better way, for Allah himself showed kindness to his unbelievers.
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.
Devotion does not mean only chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.
There is a justifiable reaction against a type of religion which imposed rigid restrictions on any kind of rational enjoyment, while it left men free to exploit one another and to make life hideous in the race for wealth.
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
